BA Modern Ballet

What you can expect
 

• Access to high quality learning and teaching with regular guest lecturers and choreographers.
• Small class sizes ensuring a high level of tuition, enhancing individual development.
• Opportunities to make industry contacts and develop your professional practice skills.
• Access to brand new specialist dance facilities and approximately 30 hours of contact time in the studio each week.
• Close collaboration with Scottish Ballet who provide artist input and guidance.
   

What you will learn  

• Take classes in professional technique (classical ballet and contemporary dance), pas de deux, repertoire, pointework/virtuosity, choreography and a range of supporting subjects.
• Develop strong technical skill, a high degree of articulation and flexibility, and a knowledge of anatomy for the dancer.
• Improve self confidence, artistry and performance ability.
• Learn to work effectively and creatively as an individual artist and in collaboration with others.
• Develop critical and analytical skills in research, reflection and evaluation.
• Develop an understanding of your profession in its historical and contemporary contexts.
• Become an employable and self-managing artist with the physical and intellectual skills required for a professional career.

 
How you will learn

Key Features
 

• Close collaboration with Scottish Ballet’s artistic staff and Company.
• World-class facilities, with brand new high specification dance studios at Speirs Locks Studios, the Academy’s recently opened additional city centre campus.
• An extensive programme of supporting classes including pilates, gyrotonics and gyrokinesis.

Graduate Destinations  

 
The programme aims to provide the professional skills and network of contacts needed by graduates to embark on a professional dance career. Graduates from the Academy are working all over the world in a huge variety of careers, and over 90% of students are in employment or further training within six months of graduation.    

Pathways
 

The Modern Ballet programme team offer a number of pathway courses for young people interested in vocational dance training including a intensive week-long Modern Ballet Summer School in August.